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L. A. OOUTEAU.

RBAPING AND MOWING MACHINE.

Patented A pr.-7, 1885 WlTNESSES INVENTOR N. PETERS. Phnlwmha nphev. Washinglun, D.C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEO.

LOUIS A. COUTEAU, OF LEONVILLE, FRANCE.-

REAPING AND MOWING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,387, dated April 7, 1885.

Application filed March 6, 1885. (No model.) Patented in France June 11,1884, No. 162,682, and in England June 13, 1884, No. 8,944.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS ADRIEN Cou- TEAU, a citizen of France, residing at Lonville, in the Republic of France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Reaping and Mowing Machines, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in France, No. 162,682, bearing date June 11,1884, and in England, No. 8,944, bearing date June 13, 1884,) of which the following is a specification.

. My invention relates to the washing and cleaning, during the whole time the machine is in operation, or at intervals, of the finger-bar and cutting-blades of reaping-machines of all kinds, so as to prevent the blades, fingers, guides, and slides from becoming clogged by wetting and'throwing off the soil which 001- lects in these parts in crossing mole-hi1ls or other irregularities of the soil. I attain these objects by the improved machineillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top view of a reaping and mowing machine to which my said invention is applied. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, and Fig.3 an enlarged top view of a part of the knife-bar and cutting-blades with the washing apparatus.

In these figures the same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists in placing on the frame A of the machine a small reservoir, B, filled with water or other liquid, and placed in communication by a flexible pipe, 0, allowing the knife-bar D to be raised, with a'pipe, E, fur

nished with more or less branch pipes, F, at

the end of which are small nozzles ff, turning to right and left, and thus bringing a small jet of water upon the knife-bar and cutting blades G. The exhaust-nozzle from the res ervoir is furnished with a tap, H, to turn the water on and off, and regulate the supply of I water or other liquid for the knife-bar and cutting-blades.

The water may be forced from the reservoir by means of a pump, I, worked by the con ductor or the carrying-wheels.

Any other arrangement may be adopted to obtain the results which I have in view without departing from the entirely new principle machines of all kinds, the combination, with I the knife-bar D and the. cutting-blades G, of

the reservoir B, the flexible tube 0, the pipe E, branches F, tap H, and pump I, substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

L. A. GOUTEAU.

WVi tn ess esr CH. BROWN, n N. BONNEVILLE. 

